Bryan, Texas-based St. Joseph Health plans to hire medical technologists and other staff members to support an influx of COVID-19 testing, according to a report from CBS affiliate KBTX-TV.

A Mercy Iowa City employee email breach this year exposed the information of tens of thousands of patients, according to the Office of the Iowa Attorney General.

Chicago-based EHR vendor Allscripts is led by a collection of tech industry veterans and previous healthcare executives.  

As EHRs continue to age out from first and second generation software, hospitals and health systems will increasingly look to transition their current systems to a new platform.

While the U.S. races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, there are two technologies already in widespread use outside the country that may limit virus transmission: germicidal ultraviolet light and the antituberculosis vaccine BCG, according to Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD,…

As health systems and providers transition from fee-for-service to value-based care reimbursement models, many are turning to precision health as a tool to reinvent care delivery. This evolution, however, requires fundamental changes to the way providers, patients and payers interact.…

Google Cloud AI and the Harvard Global Health Institute on Nov. 16 released new versions of their jointly developed COVID-19 Public Forecasts dashboard, which provides projections for hospitalizations and death rates across the U.S., according to VentureBeat. 

Cleveland was unable to report COVID-19 data for more than two days due to the high volume of new cases within the city, according to a cleveland.com report.

Here are five digital alerts and tools that hospitals and health systems have developed or integrated with their EHR systems since October. 

The federal government considers the cybersecurity threat to healthcare providers "credible, ongoing and persistent," according to a Nov. 16 update.